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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002 94(14):1046-1048; doi:10.1093/jnci/94.14.1046
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 14, 1046-1048, July 17, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Final Report of Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Released

Tom Reynolds

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Northwest U.S. residents with childhood radiation exposures from Washington state’s Hanford nuclear site had similar risk levels for thyroid cancer and other thyroid disease regardless of their radiation dose, according to the final report of the federal government’s Hanford Thyroid Disease Study.

The limited available evidence also suggests that disease incidence among study participants is comparable to incidence in nonexposed populations. This means that if Hanford radiation releases had any health effects on the thyroid gland, they are probably too small for epidemiology to detect, the investigators concluded.

About 100 people attended an open meeting June 21 in Richland, Wash., where the report was released and investigators fielded questions from the public, said Paul Garbe, D.V.M., scientific adviser for the Hanford study at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the sponsoring agency. The study was conducted under contract by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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